Abstract This paper intends to contextualise the life of Christianity in British India through developments military theology late eighteenth and nineteenth century that put forth image ‘soldier saint’- a true Christian soldier, blood faith. discourse intensified after turned civilian Indian rebellion 1857 which was immediately coloured vs heathen terms, following which, spiritual needs soldier...

Sally Merry’s (1999) Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law provides a compelling account of the cultural transformation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the nineteenth century. The focus is on the law, particularly on the manner in which Hawaiian alii (chiefs) and American lawyers and missionaries sought to make of Hawaii a modern, sovereign nation on the model of the ‘‘civilized world,’’ a ...

Though rural Protestant missionaries stationed in Cuba routinely reproduced Anglo-American epistemologies and values, often the service of US corporations, they also worked alongside their parishioners to challenge state economic violence, as well break cyclical nature Cuban poverty. Shared struggle with Cubans against Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship proved transformative for many who, late 19...

The results of medical examinations carried out on 212 missionary personnel from one missionary society returning on leave to the UK are presented. The great majority of missionaries worked in developing countries. They served in 27 countries altogether and for a total of 488 person years. The commonest illnesses reported overseas were malaria (87.3 per 1000 person years at risk), diarrhoea (63...

1. The ecumenical movement has its origins in the missionary movement, for the contemporary search for the unity of the church was initiated within the framework of the mission endeavour. The missionaries were among the first to look for ways and styles of witness in unity, recognizing that the scandal of Christian divisions and denominational rivalries hindered greatly the impact of their mess...